I set up my camera today to try to take some pictures of birds at the bird feeder. Of course I didn’t see any even after waiting around for 10 or 15 minutes. I left the camera there and did some other stuff until I noticed the cat sitting on here window perch looking at the bird feeders with her tail swishing… good cat. Normally I don’t see the birds she’s looking at until she drops their corpses at my feet. I do feel kind of conflicted about that… while I enjoy watching birds, I also enjoy having a cat that is a mighty hunter.

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I’m sitting here in my living room watching the NCAA tournament in glorious 1080i HD. I realized I was hearing something that I hadn’t heard in quite a while. One of the sounds of spring and summer where I live on Friday nights is the roar of dirt-track sprint cars coming from Williams Grove Speedway just a couple of miles away.

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Our family was coming home from running an errand when we noticed a red-tailed hawk sitting in the grass near the driveway. I dropped everything and ran for the camera. When I got a little closer I could see that he was standing on a dead rabbit that had been in the road earlier. I snapped a couple of shots before he got spooked and tried to fly off with the rabbit. It was too heavy and he dropped it soon after taking off. I like this picture. You can see guts hanging out of the bottom of the rabbit. What’s up, Doc?

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